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If you’ve decided that the Information, Communication Technology and Electronics (ICTE) industry is where you want to work, you’ll be glad to know that South Africa is in dire need of people qualified in these fields. 
According to Beverly Sollinger, director of specialist IT Recruitment Company, Datafin, ‘there’s a huge demand for candidates, and a shortage of supply. ’ In other words, graduates with qualifications in ICTE are almost sure to find employment, and there are many specific areas of it-related work to choose from.

Sollinger observes that programmers are in greatest need, especially .Net developers. ‘Clients phone every day asking for them,’ she says. ‘They will get placed. On the networking side, Linux skills are also in great demand.’ In terms of development positions, more open source technicians and people with PHP skills are needed.

Sonja Durant, managing director of The IT Department, a company specialising in meeting the IT requirements of small businesses, points out that there is also a shortage of field technicians, saying, ‘Currently, with the economy so strong, more businesses have capital to invest in their IT, so demand in the industry is really taking off.’

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Great places to study in Cape Town:

• Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
• Torque-IT
• The Animation School
• Curro College: 0860 21 23 22
• False Bay College
• NCV Information Technology & Computer Science: College of Cape Town:Crawford Campus

Here is a list of technologies to watch for in 2011.

1. Personal Energy Management. - By allowing people to monitor the amount of energy they consume through technologies from Google, General Electric, Intel, etc… people will be more inclined to want to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions—an added bonus? Consumers can also find out how they can save money!

2. Gesture and Movement recognition for hands free control. - Recognition hardware in game consoles like Kinect is going to encourage companies like Microsoft to start offering customers more hands-free interfaces.

3. Wireless healthcare. - Thanks to wireless technology many more people are able to be monitored by medical professionals from the comfort of their own homes. General Electric, Qualcomm, and Intel are retooling their efforts on their telehealth and independent-living apps to focus on wireless connectivity.

4. 3-D Everything! - From TVs, games, mobile devices, 3-D Technology is turning up every where thanks to the 3-D optical metrology technique.

5. Security to go from Software to Hardware. - Thanks to the genius of Intel purchasing Macafee last year—security features will be directly built into their microprocessors. In addition to just fighting off computer viruses, the new built in security will be able to remotely disable a PC if it is stolen and Intel will focus on the security concerns of Cloud Computing.

Advances in all of these technological fields will be exciting to watch. The best is yet to come. Click here to read the original article